Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Germany, s. xiv1/4.
MS. Laud Misc. 191
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Iacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea. Germany, s. xiv1/4.
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 191
Date
14th century, first quarter
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment; (fols 151, 178, 180, 253 & 274) remnants of medieval repair (stitching holes); (fols 159, 272 & 273) stitching preserved in natural-coloured thread. Bookmarks to Silvester, Cathedra s. Petri, Emissio spiritus sancti, Ad vincula s. Petri, Quatuor coronati/Theodorus, and Dionysius et soc.: red-coloured, folded leather strips, pasted to both sides of the outer margins of fols 27, 64, 110, 155, 200 & 245; all damaged now.
Physical extent
ii (17th-cent.) + 281 + ii (17th-cent.) leaves
Hands
German textualis, s. xiv1/4, mainly by one scribe. Majuscules occasionally decorated, the ones on the top line frequently elaborated and ornamented, with human, often crowned, heads, for example. Corrections and marginal notes in hands of s. xiv.
Decoration
(fol. 2ra & va) Flourished initials in red.
Coloured initials in red.
Rubrication.
Binding
Brown tanned calf over laminated pulpboard for Archbp. Laud, 1637–1639
Acquisition
Given to the Bodleian as part of his third donation, dispatched on 28 June 1639.
Provenance
Mainz, Carthusian abbey of St Michael: three 15th-cent. ex-libris inscriptions, in the same hand, at the head of fol. 2r and in the lower margins of fols 97r & 281v: ‘Iste liber est fratrum Carthusiensium prope magunciam’.
William Laud, 1573–1645: Ex-libris inscription of Archbp. Laud, dated 1638, at the lower half of fol. ii verso.
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Title
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Shelfmark
MS. Laud Misc. 191
Date
14th century, beginning
Language
Latin
Physical extent
281 Leaves
Custodial history
Manuscript 2581 acquired by the Bodleian Library
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Collection contents
Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
